EXPLORATIONS NEAR SOZOPOL (Petar Leshtakov – junior_1_bg@yahoo.com, Miroslav Klasnakov) The area of the Late Neolithic (second half of the 6th millennium BC) settlement is more than 0.25 ha. About 600 sq. m were explored. Fifty rectangular trenches arranged in parallel rows were registered. Probably they were remains of vineyards of the 2nd – 4th centuries AD. The Neolithic layer is 30 – 60 cm in thickness. Five rectangular and horseshoe ovens were discovered. They measure 1.10 – 1.20 m by 0.85 – 0.90 m and have openings directed to the south. Pits, 80 – 90 cm in diameter and 30 cm in depth, were registered close to two of the ovens. The upper parts of the pits are plastered with clay and fired. Probably these are storage pits for grain. A burned house was discovered. The area of burned wattle-and-daub measures 7 m by 8.50 m. Part of the northern wall, 10 – 12 cm in width, was discovered. It is constructed of posts, arranged at a distance from each other, and wattle. The corner post was explored in the northwestern corner of the house. It was placed in a pit and supported by stones. An oven, a storage pit for grain and a flat earthen baking dish were discovered in the northern part of the house. The oven is horseshoe and measures 1.70 m by 1.30 m with opening directed to the south. Twenty-eight pits, from 0.20 m to 3 m in depth, were explored. They contained pottery, fragmentary millstones, horn tools and animal bones. The finds from the excavations include stone pestles, axes and adzes, bone tools and adornments, flint artifacts and a pendant of copper ore. The paleobotanical material includes barley, lentils, vetch, vetchling, flax, bristle-grass, wild barley, sorrel, cornel-tree, wild apple, wild pear, etc. The ratio between the bones from domesticated mammals and wild mammals is 94% : 6%. The osteological material includes ox, sheep, goat, pig, dog, red deer, boar, Bos primigenius, rabbit, stag of a fallow deer, wild cat, pelican, loon, Gallinula chloropus, cormorant and tuna-fish.